-
Best of luck to the class of 2024 for their HSC exams. You got this! Let us know your thoughts on the HSC exams here -
YOU can help the next generation of students in the community! Share your trial papers and notes on our Notes & Resources page
literature (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Sarah168
- Start date
and unfair of me to descriminate...
Gregor Samsa
That Guy
My literary tastes incline towards 'Post-Nationalism'. While I am partial to varying nations, I have no definite favourite. Have been meaning to get into some Latin American authors, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges, but its a matter of finding the books..
clerisy
Member
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2003
- Messages
- 256
- Gender
- Female
- HSC
- 2004
I like a lot of books from a lot of different countries, and it IS hard to discriminate...
However, I do like a lot of the Victorian literature (I know, I know--the choice is conventional and predictable). While I do not really like American literature as a whole, I do adore Thornton Wilder and have just started to read Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (which I think Im liking) so I think they somewhat redeem American literature in my eyes.
Sarah, do you like Breakfast at Tiffany's??? The first time I saw the film, I absolutely loved it (I've always been an Audrey Hepburn fan) and so I read the book straight afterwards-- which served only to make me utterly hate the film because of how drastically they'd changed the plot (and thus the meaning).
However, I do like a lot of the Victorian literature (I know, I know--the choice is conventional and predictable). While I do not really like American literature as a whole, I do adore Thornton Wilder and have just started to read Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (which I think Im liking) so I think they somewhat redeem American literature in my eyes.
Sarah, do you like Breakfast at Tiffany's??? The first time I saw the film, I absolutely loved it (I've always been an Audrey Hepburn fan) and so I read the book straight afterwards-- which served only to make me utterly hate the film because of how drastically they'd changed the plot (and thus the meaning).
ameh
dirty trick
russian literature, english canon readings
^nah not really, i like patrick white at the moment, he's australian!
^nah not really, i like patrick white at the moment, he's australian!
walrusbear
Active Member
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2003
- Messages
- 2,261
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- 2003
i like stuff from all over the place but i'd probably say at the moment i'm interested in US literature (20th century)
lately i've been reading novels by john updike, don delillo and (at the moment) thomas pynchon
lately i've been reading novels by john updike, don delillo and (at the moment) thomas pynchon
Trippendicular
Member
London fields by martin amis
Soma
Toney Starks Fanboy
American and of course the Russian classics.
hmmm...not much has changed for me...Im reading plays by tenessee williams. The collection includes "A Street car named Desire", "The Glass Menagerie" and "Sweet Bird of Youth" (I think). I've read the glass menagerie and im in the middle of "street car named desire"